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[koshari]

We live in a strange time where poor people are fat because we have an oversupply of food but heather food is more expensive. Very strange

People just lack discipline.

 

[Val Keating]

This is why historians are so valuable.

Yes. It sucks that the library of Alexandria burned down

 

[Gasometer]

I haven’t seen any of the new ones or the tv show

Get on the Tv show and forget the rest like the rest of the world has

 

[Del191229]

Yes. It sucks that the library of Alexandria burned down

Yep, completely.

The destruction of Muslim centres of learning like Baghdad by the Mongols probably worse.

 

[Gasometer]

Yes. It sucks that the library of Alexandria burned down

The one near Yea/Mansfield?
When?

 

[Del191229]

We live in a strange time where poor people are fat because we have an oversupply of food but heather food is more expensive. Very strange

Weight/size is now a cultural marker in our society like it has always been in many cultures.

Except it used to be that being bigger was a mark of status. Now it is mark of being lower class.

US movies and prestige TV use this visual shorthand all the time.

 

[Snake_Baker]

I love reading the beat up on Historians.

The same people are probably those that then sit around and think Bridgaton is historical fact

I love it how sociologists, political scientists and journalists shoehorn themselves in with one of the few arts disciplines that has any intellectual credibility.

 

[Val Keating]

People just lack discipline.

If a family is on the poverty line and they have to chose between a pack of 10 schnitzels for $10 made from fat and scraps or a couple of chicken breasts for the same amount it’s sort of tough. There’s heaps of examples like that. Mince is another. Or even choosing between cage eggs and eggs from somewhere the chickens have a half decent life, whilst not a health choice someone living on the poverty line can’t afford to make an ethical choice.

 

[Swallow_Wood]

See, now you've lost it.

You made a smartarse comment, it came back over the net with interest, and then you switched straight in to overblown lame cliche mode.

Now it's time for you to make another cliched virtue signalling statement backed up by the delusion that you speak on behalf of every other human being in existence.

Nah this will do...

 

[Snake_Baker]

Nah this will do...

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Was this the cornerstone of your PhD?

What completely unrelated tax payer funded career did this land you?

Minister for Health?

 

[Val Keating]

Weight/size is now a cultural marker in our society like it has always been.

Except it used to be that being bigger was a mark of status. Now it is mark of being lower class.

US movies and prestige TV use this visual shorthand all the time.

It’s kind of true though. Sure it’s a generalisation but it is what it is.

 

[Swallow_Wood]

Was this the cornerstone of your PhD?

What completely unrelated tax payer funded career did this land you?

Corrections.

Its good to be interacting with you again.

 

[Val Keating]

Yep, completely.

The destruction of Muslim centres of learning like Baghdad by the Mongols probably worse.

Reckon there’s a few secrets in the Vatican as well

 

[Gasometer]

If a family is on the poverty line and they have to chose between a pack of 10 schnitzels for $10 made from fat and scraps or a couple of chicken breasts for the same amount it’s sort of tough. There’s heaps of examples like that. Mince is another. Or even choosing between cage eggs and eggs from somewhere the chickens have a half decent life, whilst not a health choice someone living on the poverty line can’t afford to make an ethical choice.

In actual fact it’s worse and is either a mixture of low quality high fat foods or over compensation with junk food for the poor quality of life that exists elsewhere; kind of like a “sugar fix” from the misery of everyday life. I have seen it with Foxtel subscriptions, smokes etc when there could be “better things” worth spending on. Generational poverty...a sad cycle of existence.

So it’s led to the Govt Welfare Cards.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Corrections.

Its good to be interacting with you again.

LOL, I'm sure the entrance exam was a significant challenge.

Now go fetch me breakfast.

 

[Val Keating]

When will the bubble pop?

Why does it have to pop?

 

[Swallow_Wood]

LOL, I'm sure the entrance exam was a significant challenge.

I'd rather require an exam for entry into a corrections facility than the alternative route.

 

[Gasometer]

Why does it have to pop?

Everything that is too good to be true pops

 

[Val Keating]

In actual fact it’s worse and is either a mixture of low quality high fat foods or over compensation with junk food for the poor quality of life that exists elsewhere; kind of like a “sugar fix” from the misery of everyday life. I have seen it with Foxtel subscriptions, smokes etc when there could be better things worth spending on. Generational poverty...a sad cycle of existence

Very hard to break out. Same as people who come from crime families. They call that the crooked ladder. Gladwell did a good episode of climbing the crooked ladder.

 

[Snake_Baker]

I'd rather require an exam for entry into a corrections facility than the alternative route.

Really?

You should try originality and honesty for a change, rather than condemning yourself to a life as a subservient pack runner.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Very hard to break out. Same as people who come from crime families. They call that the crooked ladder. Gladwell did a good episode of climbing the crooked ladder.

Eventually, all families will become crime families.

 

[Gasometer]

Very hard to break out. Same as people who come from crime families. They call that the crooked ladder. Gladwell did a good episode of climbing the crooked ladder.

Heard a story from a bloke who advertised for 3 positions the last 6 months up here and the responses were pathetic...one even told him why would I work for that when I get $1500 doing sfa?

Anyway he finally got some blokes.

After one year with overtime etc his 2018 intake bloke went from $60k to $110k this past year

 

[Val Keating]

Eventually, all families will become crime families.

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You’re pretty big on that. I can’t see it getting that bad tbh

 

[Gasometer]

Swallow_Wood you related to John?

 

[Del191229]

It’s kind of true though. Sure it’s a generalisation but it is what it is.

Totally. As you say, poor people can only afford shit food.

Cooking has become culturally very bourgeois too.

I always think of the famous British example where Jamie Oliver wanted to make free school lunches which of course they call dinners healthy and parents were pushing burgers and chips through the fence for kids who didn't like it.